KC @ DET
Home plate: Andy Fletcher
“The grade leaned — the ledger says which way.”
What this shows — how Andy Fletcher called the 160 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 147 right. Below, only his misses are plotted, alongside every pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.69▼1 · 3-2 strike called ball
Gleyber Torres vs Kris Bubic - 2+0.30▼5 · 3-1 strike called ball
Javier Báez vs Kris Bubic - 3-0.30▼9 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Kevin McGonigle vs Lucas Erceg
Run impact from the count run-value table: a missed strike three is worth far more than one on 3-0.
ABS — the Automated Ball-Strike System
4 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Kevin McGonigle — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Michael Massey — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Kevin McGonigle — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.